USP
# USP

USP may refer to:

## Government institutions

* Unité Spéciale de la Police, Luxembourg
* United States Penitentiary, a prison
* Utah State Prison, Draper, US

## Math and science

* Ultra-short period planets, orbiting planets with periods shorter than one day.
* Ultraspiracle protein, a part of the ecdysone receptor
* Universal stress protein, a protein superfamily
* USp (2n), a symplectic group in the mathematics of group theory
* USP grade, a level of chemical purity

## Technology

* United States patent
* Heckler & Koch USP pistol
* Ultrashort pulse laser, a laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light, generally of the order of femtoseconds to hundreds of femtoseconds
* Universal Storage Platform, brand name for a Hitachi Data Systems line of enterprise storage arrays
* Unified shader processors, used in GPUs
* USP (Victoria), a Russian satellite bus

## Universities

* University of São Paulo, a public university in Brazil
* University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, United States
* University of the South Pacific, a public university with a number of locations in Oceania
* University of Southeastern Philippines, an educational institution in Mindanao, Philippines
* University of Southern Philippines Foundation, an educational institution in Cebu, Philippines
* University Scholars Program, a scholarly community at Duke University; see John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies

## Other uses

* Unified settlement planning
* Unique selling proposition/Unique selling point, in marketing
* United States Pharmacopeia
* Urs Samyuktha Paksha, an Indian political party
* Useful space principle, in the game of bridge
* Uttama Seva Padakkama, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
* Uspantek language (ISO 639 code: usp), a Mayan language
